Thoughts on AI
Insights on AI, prompting and the future of technology
The Model Is No Longer the Bottleneck
Two reports on the same AI model, four days apart, with roughly a 270-fold difference in outcomes. And a benchmark built to expose the model’s weaknesses —...
How to secure your digital accounts — the basics, all the way up
What I learned from seriously auditing and hardening all my most important accounts. A personal walkthrough plus a checklist.
AI and Energy — Two Billion Tokens Later
I consumed nearly two billion tokens in a month. That amounts to roughly 100 kWh — about the same as running a couple of refrigerators. Here is what it made me...
Resilient and Sovereign AI
Recent developments have made me think about what it means to depend on access to intelligence via American tech companies — and what resilient and sovereign...
Building in Public
The public conversation about AI is driven by people inside the bubble. I want to show rather than tell — building small, useful tools with AI and sharing them...
Something Keeps Stealing Focus on My Mac. I Built a Tool to Catch It.
A mystery focus-steal bug drove me crazy for months. So I built an open-source logger to find the culprit. Turns out it was Logitech G Hub — grabbing focus 47...
Claude Code's Token Counts Are Wrong — 100x Off in the JSONL Logs
Every tool reading Claude Code's JSONL logs — including ccusage — is working with bad data. Input tokens are undercounted by up to 174x. Here's the proof and...
I Built a 36-Slide Presentation with AI in Two Hours. Here Is What I Learned.
An honest walkthrough of building a complete HTML presentation with Claude Cowork — what worked, what didn't, and what I'm taking away.
When will AI take my job?
Benchmarks used to evaluate AI systems tend to favor questions which are easy to provide to an AI, and easy to evaluate or grade.
How Much Energy Does AI Use?
GPT-4 training consumed an estimated 50–100 GWh. A single ChatGPT query uses ~0.3 Wh. Here is how AI energy consumption actually breaks down — from prompts to...
AI’s Exponential Leap: What the Next Few Years May Bring
It’s Difficult to Make Predictions, Especially About the Future
Getting Started — and Continuing — to Learn About AI and Prompting
I sometimes get asked how to best learn about AI and prompting, and how to keep up as new models and applications are released.
OpenAI and the Flexible Copyright
OpenAI recently released a built-in image generator for their 4o model. The model can generate images from text, images, or a combination of both.
Deep research - the good, the bad and the ugly
The "deep research" feature became available in late February for those paying for a "Plus" subscription to ChatGPT. How good is the feature, and are there...
The prompt - how important is it really?
On February 7th I was named the winner of Prompt-SM 2025. The competition, which I have written about in earlier blog posts, challenged participants to craft...
"Deep search" - what is it?
Imagine you need to write a summary about the history of pets in Sweden, and you want help finding relevant sources online and summarising them.
My Winning Prompts - 3
The third task came with a tricky constraint - we were not allowed to use any AI tools. The answer had to be written straight into a text editor, with no...
My Winning Prompts - 2
The second task we had to solve in Prompt-SM, the Swedish National Prompt Championship, was worded as follows:
My Winning Prompts - 1
Many have asked me to share the prompts that won me first place in Prompt-SM, the Swedish National Prompt Championship. In this post I will describe the first...